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The queen lays an egg at the base of a honeycomb cell and after three days the egg hatches into a larva. The larva is fed by the worker bees and the larva grows to many times its original size during which time it sheds its skin four times. After this the worker bees cap the larval cell with a mixture of wax and pollen. The pupa sheds its skin one more time then spins a cocoon around itself inside the cell and it pupates. At the end of pupation the adult bee eats its way through the cell capping and emerges
Because the entire pupation takes place in a sealed wax cell, under normal circumstances we never see the cocoon.

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